During the call Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman said that while youth engagement is stable, younger teens saw a decrease in daily active users.

In the third-quarter net income rose to $425 million, or 17 cents a share, from a loss of $59 million, or 2 cents a share, in the last year's quarter.

Excluding items, the company earned $621 million, or 25 cents per share, from $311 million, or 12 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Revenue jumped 60 percent to $2.02 billion from $1.26 billion a year ago.

Analysts had expected the social network to report earnings excluding items of 19 cents a share on $1.91 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.

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Revenue from mobile ads, which appear on smartphones, represented 49 percent of Facebook's total advertising revenue in the third quarter, or roughly $880 million. Mobile ads generated roughly $150 million in the year-ago period, when Facebook was just beginning to develop its mobile ad business.